...Tuesday’s clash involving protesters and security guards for visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan prompted outrage by local and U.S. officials who accused the guards of using violence to quell what had been a peaceful demonstration in Northwest Washington....

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Wow. Really problematic because of the jurisdiction thing. Diplomats can be arrogant about minor law breaking, but this is a new height, suggests a kind of Milgram experiment thing going on where the total control thing becomes quickly contagious. It's like: hey, a reminder that once you step outside that property, you're not in Turkey anymore. Royce and McCain deserve praise for speaking up about this. It really is dissing all of us. Those guards are supposed to work with local law enforcement and if they don't like the situation regarding that, then just protest to the national authorities and if they don't like the answer they can go home.

The House on Tuesday formally expressed bipartisan anger against Turkish security forces for violently suppressing demonstrators outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington last month.

In the form of a resolution passed in a 397-0 vote, lawmakers called for any Turkish security officials who directed or participated in attacking demonstrators outside the ambassador’s residence to be charged and prosecuted under U.S. law.

At least 11 people were injured during a clash between protesters and Turkish security guards on the same day Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with President Trump at the White House.

“We must speak loudly and clearly that we will protect our citizens and their fundamental rights to free speech and to assembly,” said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.).

“Turkey is an important and longstanding NATO ally. But the Turkish government can and should do better than this.” [.....]

BERLIN — Turkish bodyguards served with criminal charges for allegedly attacking protesters outside the ambassador's residence in D.C. “won't set foot on German soil in the foreseeable future, so also during the G-20 summit,” a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry said Monday.

A German official briefed on security matters, who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to speak about arrangements with foreign governments, said a few of these guards had been on a list prepared by the Turkish Embassy in Germany of individuals scheduled to attend the summit. After the list was received by the German Foreign Ministry, the official said, German federal police and other security personnel communicated to Turkish security that these individuals were not to attend [....]

[....] Last month, Jared Kushner announced the Administration’s support for the bill in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, writing that the six million Americans in local and federal prisons are included among “the forgotten men and women” that Trump vowed to fight for during his Presidential campaign.. “Get a bill to my desk, and I will sign it,” Trump promised. The House passed the bill this week.

President Trump on Thursday canceled a planned summit next month with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, citing “tremendous anger and open hostility” from the rogue nation in a letter explaining his abrupt decision.

“I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting,” Trump said to Kim in a letter released by the White House on Thursday morning.

The summit had been planned for June 12 in Singapore.

In his letter, Trump held open the possibility that the two leaders could meet at a later date to discuss denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, which Trump has been pushing.

"President Trump’s unprecedented meeting on Monday with the FBI director and deputy attorney general regarding a case in which he is directly involved may turn out to be the defining moment of his presidency and for his party. Bob Bauer at the Lawfare blog writes:

North Korea is threatening to reconsider Kim Jong Un’s participation in a summit with President Trump next month, saying it is up to the United States to decide whether it wants to “meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown.”

Stacey Abrams just one the Democratic Gubernatorial race in Georgia by roughly 3:1. She could become the first black and first female Governor of Georgia. It looks like the Republican candidate will be chosen after a runoff election since no one reached 50% of the vote.

Evans argued that Democrats could win by appealing to moderate Republicans. Abrams argued that the party needs to focus on disaffected Democrats. Abrams won. Abrams even won Democrats in northern Georgia with small minority populations.

Kendrick Lamar brought on a white fan onstage to rap along with his song “m.A.A.D. City”. When the fan rapped the song as written, repeating the N-word three times, Lamar halted the performance. He told the fan that she could not use the word. She apologized. He gave her a second chance. She almost rapped the word again, the crowd was not having it. Lamar ushered the fan off stage and continued the performance.

The audience responded negatively to the white fan using the words on stage. She lost the crowd with the first use of the words. Some did point out that she was just rapping the words as written.